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WV664/2002
Coloured pencil and soft pastel on Steinbach paper
Spanish air castles...
"You can waste your time building barriers
Spend your life trying to break them down again
Like an island, in a sea that breathes revenge
When we talk sometimes you're a looking glass
Every word from the blueprint of your past
In the distance there's a castle in the clouds
And our love will make us strong together
We can be in love forever
Just the two of us
When I get lonely, hold me
We will understand each other
You will be my friend and lover
When we're far apart
You're in my heart I'm in your dreams......"
CASTLE IN THE CLOUDS - Beverley Craven, 1990.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Elton John Songs Illustrated
RARE MASTERS
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House Of Cards
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1975
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hear tell some playboy has kidnapped your heart
With his plane and his plans for games after dark
Just a pain in his pocket, and the price of a room
Where the second hand sheets smell of stale perfume
If there's sharks in the water, don't swim where it's deep
For the taste of success can be bitter and sweet
It could be you're right that I act like a child
But you'll be the loser when the jokers run wild
You're just playing the game, but the stakes are too high
What will you do when the chips start to fly
When the deck's stacked against you, and the living gets hard
Oh it's four walls of madness in this house of cards
Common you call me, but I know there's time
In a handful of diamonds, a heart's hard to find
And your house of cards starts weighing you down
Your nights become restless when the clubs start to pound
WV2052/2025
Ink painting and coloured pencils Faber-Castell on Steinbach paper.
"In the nicotine glare of a cold naked light
I drag my body from the covers and down forty flights
I run out the front door into the center of the street
I scream out your name as the steam just swells around my feet
I hear you after midnight from the inner city
As every Cinderella turns to drop dead pretty
We were built out of the darkness into this West Side Story
We came together in the shadows but the moon just steals our glory
Well this is my battleground baby
This is my plaything
The only thing I've ever known
Outside of a wedding ring
And I swear I heard the night talking
Cursing me for being a little more than hopeless
Telling me we're running lonely, loose and broken
Stronger now on passion but haven't we really spoken
And all we ever do is listen to the night talking
On the burden of insanity we can't find the cause
On a flatbed truck well the home girl she paints her claws
There's a coward who gets his courage undercover of the dark
And it's a strange breed of devil freeze at night to go walking in the park...."
I SWEAR I HEARD THE NIGHT TALKING - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1990.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
A digital collage of previous coloured pencil drawings on paper.
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Since God Invented Girls
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1988
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The mother of invention made it good for me
Tighter in the rear
Longer in the seam
Kicked out yards of leather
Wrapped around her waist
Trimmed it to perfection
And left a little space
Yeah they got competition now
All across the world
But there ain't been no looking back
Since God invented girls
Now I know what Brian Wilson meant
Every time I step outside
I see what Heaven sent
There may be seven wonders
Created for this world
But one is all we need
Since God invented girls
Higher on the heel, paler than pure cream
Leaner on the sidewalk
Cutting through the steam
After claws and feathers
He took skin and bone
Shaped it like an hourglass
And made the angels moan
Oh here's a little heat boys
To straighten out them curls
Now there ain't been no angels round
Since God invented girls
WV292/1996
Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper
"Getting to know other contents and forms of thought, that is where the story lies in a smile of the Buddha....
"Now everybody has a right to be living their lives
Oh, but we're a long long way, a long way from paradise
If there is freedom, tell me why everybody wants to fight?
Cause we're a long long way, a long way from paradise
You might be strong enough
You might be rich enough
You might be blind enough
To push it all aside
No matter what you do
It keeps coming back to me and you
Give a little bit of love and you get it back
Give a little bit of pain, you're caught in a trap
For every little thing that you say or do
Give a little bit of love and it'll come back to you
You got your reasons but are you sure they're reasons to be right?
Oh, cause we're a long, long way, a long way from paradise
Don't let your anger or your fear become your suicide
Oh, cause we're a long, long way, a long way from paradise
We must be strong enough
We must be great enough
We've waited long enough
Now it's time to say goodbye -
We've got some rules to burn
So many lessons to be learned
Give a little bit of love and you get it back
Give a little bit of pain, you're caught in a trap
For every little thing that you say or do
Give a little bit of love and it'll come back to you
Now I believe in peace and harmony
You've got to believe in love before you can be free
So take a hand, everybody make a friend
I want you to believe in love
Like I believe
Every little thing that you say or do
Give a little bit of love and it will come back to you..."
I BELIEVE - Marcella Detroit, 1994.
A portrait of CARLA BRUNI and president OBAMA in a singalong mood, but does he does he know French....
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Elton John Songs Illustrated
THE FOX
Carla Etude
WV1714/2011
Ecoline ink on Steinbach paper...
"Oh Jessie I'd like to be
One of those men upon the screen
With an elegant lady and a cafe in Paris
Serving Pernot and Kalua with cream
You can see it I know
All the doors have been closed in my face
And the drinks at the Casbah
Run a mile or more from this place
And oh Jessie won't you look at the planes
Tell me, oh Jessie, is it true what they say
That there's a capital G in the name of the game
And the runway's a home for my silver-grey planes
And won't you look at the planes
Riding down the skyway
Jessie ain't those wings just fine
Don't it make you want to fly someday
Why friend am I so still
Tied to my job with time to kill
Do I still bear the traces of old Don Quixote
Tilting giants on imaginary hills...."
PLANES - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1975.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Billy Joel Songs Illustrated
RIVER OF DREAMS
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Blonde Over Blue
Music & lyrics by Billy Joel 1993
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Some days, when I'm far away
In a lonely room in a cold seclusion
Some nights when I'm wound so tight
There is no release, there is no solution
In hell, there's a big hotel
Where the bar just closed and the windows never opened
No phone, so you can't call home,
And the TV works, but the clicker is broken
But, in the darkness, I see your light turned on
You know my weakness, you know how I respond to...
Blonde over blue
Your hands are cold, your eyes are fire
Blonde over blue
They shine as though you're burning inside
One word from you is all I need to be inspired
Blonde over blue
I need your inspiration tonight
These days, there's a million ways
To be pulled and torn, to be misdirected
These times, there are sins and crimes
On the morning shows for the disconnected
I look, and I write my book,
And I walk away with the wrong impressions
Don't care 'cause I've done my share,
And I need some time for my own obsessions
It doesn't matter, I've let that life go by
It's been forgotten 'cause all I wanted was you
Blonde over blue
Your hands are cold, your eyes are fire
Blonde over blue
They shine as though you're burning inside
One word from you is all I need to be inspired
Blonde over blue
I need your inspiration tonight
These days, not a damn soul prays,
And there is no faith 'cause there's nothing to believe in
These days, only good luck pays
If we don't get paid, then we try to get even
I look, and I write my book,
And I have my say, and I draw conclusions
Some nights when I'm wound so tight
There is no release, there is no solution
But, in the darkness, I see your light turned on
You know my weakness, you know how I respond to...
A 1996 colored pencil drawing and pen calligraphy, digitally reworked with AI channels, inspired by 'Blessed', an Elton John song with lyrics by Bernie Taupin.
WV279/1996/2026
Impression of numerous trips through Laos and Thailand in a distant past....
Imagine a small Southeast Asian country, one that never declared war, yet was bombed more heavily than Germany and Japan combined during World War II.
This is the tragic reality of Laos between 1964 and 1973. At the time, the country had a population of just around two million, but was hit with over two million tons of bombs dropped by the United States. Yes, that's more bombs than people.
It may sound like a dark work of fiction, but this is a hidden chapter of the Vietnam War, one that the world often overlooks. Laos holds the grim distinction of being the most heavily bombed country in history per capita.
My Laotian wife was 8 years old in 1973...
2039/2025
The coelacanth was thought to be an extinct fish species since the Devonian period. Until one was discovered in 1938 off the coast of South Africa...
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2011
Elton John Songs Illustrated
GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
Candle In The Wind
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1973
WV2243/2025
A mix of watercolour, acrylic & ink on Steinbach paper 27x36 cm.
"Your mama is a werewolf with long, sharp teeth
I'm up all night when the world should sleep
I curse the darkness when it's killin' time
I got a river of fear runnin' through my mind
When the moon shines through those parting clouds
I hear the call and I howl out loud
I stalk the streets where the shadows lie
And I pray to God that that sun will rise
But that sun don't always rise
When I awaken and I'm reborn
My body aches and my soul is torn
I search the void for any clues
And I feel ashamed for what I've put you through
This curse a gift from my father's kin
They fought the beast I feel within
But we don't talk about it and we don't call its name
We just carry on, hopin' it'll change
But we know it'll never change
If my good intentions go runnin' wild
If I cause you pain, my own sweet child
Won't you promise me you'll be the one?
My silver bullet in the gun
Would you strike me down right where I stand?
Would you change me back, make me kind again?
Won't you promise me you'll be the one?
My silver bullet in the gun...."
MAMA WEREWOLF - Brandi Carlile, 2021.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Original coloured pencil drawing on paper and later digital BW reworked...
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A Word In Spanish
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1988
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I don't know why
I just know I do
I just can't explain
In this language that I use
Something leaves me speechless
Each time that you approach
Each time you glide right through me
As if I was a ghost
If I only could tell you
If you only would listen
I've got a line or two to use on you
I've got a romance we could christen
And there's a word in Spanish I don't understand
But I heard it in a film one time spoken by the leading man
He said it with devotion, he sounded so sincere
And the words he spoke in Spanish brought the female lead to tears
A word in Spanish, a word in Spanish
If you can't comprehend
Read it in my eyes
If you don't understand it's love
In a thin disguise
And what it takes to move you
Each time that you resist
Is more than just a pretty face
To prove that I exist
When manners make no difference
And my gifts all lay undone
I trade my accent in on chance
And fall back on a foreign tongue
WV2073/2025
Van Gogh watercolour and coloured pencils faber-castell on Steinbach paper.
"....
I never realised the passing hours of evening showers
A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams
I'm strangled by your haunted social scene
Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen
It's four o'clock in the morning
Damn it listen to me good
I'm sleeping with myself tonight
Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive
And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear
You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear
You nearly had me roped and tied
Altar-bound, hypnotized
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
You're a butterfly
And butterflies are free to fly
Fly away, high away, bye bye...."
SOMEONE SAVED MY LIFE TONIGHT - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1975.
WV1853/2024
"...I'll ask you some questions, I'll tell you some lies
You don't understand, but you will
I'll make up some answers, cut you down to size
Then I move in for the kill
But my heart's in the right place
My heart's in the right place
My heart's in the right place, it's part of the skill..."
HEART IN THE RIGHT PLACE from album THE FOX - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1981;
WV2027/2025
Coloured pencil faber-castell on Steinbach paper.
"Daydream
I fell asleep amid the flowers
For a couple of hours
On a beautiful day
Daydream
I dreamed of you amid the flowers
For a couple of hours
Such a beautiful day
I dreamed of the places I've been with you
How we sat with the stream flowing by
And then when I kissed you and held you so near
Tell me why, tell me why you're so shy? ..."
DAYDREAM - Wallace Collection, 1969.
"The power of love, a force from above..."
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
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THE POWER OF LOVE
By Frankie Goes To Hollywood
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I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door
Feels like fire
I'm so in love with you
Dreams are like angels
They keep bad at bay-bad at bay
Love is the light
Scaring darkness away-yeah
I'm so in love with you
Purge the soul
Make love your goal
*The power of love
A force from above
Cleaning my soul
Flame on burn desire
Love with tongues of fire
Purge the soul
Make love your goal
I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door
When the chips are down I'll be around
With my undying, death-defying
Love for you
Envy will hurt itself
Let yourself be beautiful
Sparkling love, flowers
And pearls and pretty girls
Love is like an energy
Rushin' rushin' inside of me
This time we go sublime
Lovers entwine-divine divine
Love is danger, love is pleasure
Love is pure-the only treasure
I'm so in love with you
Purge the soul
Make love your goal
The power of love
A force from above
Cleaning my soul
The power of love
A force from above
A sky-scraping dove
Flame on burn desire
Love with tongues of fire
Purge the soul
Make love your goal
I'll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door
WV2108/2025
Watercolours and ink on Steinbach paper.
"....
Haven't you heard them say
I was a prisoner
Buried alive now suddenly I've been freed
But love is the sweetest way
Oh I was lonely
And now you're the only lover that I'll ever need
You are my princess
You make me smile
You make my life seem worthwhile
You are my princess
You are the one
You make the sun shine on me
You're one fine lady
You're my princess...."
PRINCESS - Music & lyrics Elton John & Gary Osborne, 1982.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Elton John Songs Illustrated
LEATHER JACKETS
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Don't Trust That Woman
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Cher 1986
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She's a real ball-buster, don't trust her
She's in a most peculiar phase
You can rear end her oh it'll send her
She wants you, she'll have you her own way
Don't untie her, don't defy her
'Cause she'll bring you down to your knees
You can beat her but don't mistreat her
Oh don't believe that woman please
Don't trust that woman
Don't trust that woman boys
'Cause she'll burn you
Turn you into little toys
Don't trust that woman
Don't trust that woman boys
'Cause she'll hurt you
And turn you into little toys
Don't trust that woman boys
She's a man-eater, oh don't you cheat her
She'll cut you just to watch you bleed
A woman half crazy, oh then again lazy
With an appetite to feed
She's a liar oh you can't buy her
'Cause she'll bring you down to your knees
Don't untie her, don't defy her
Oh don't believe that woman please
Mean sister, tongue-twister
She takes it easy but she makes it hard
Soul sister, two-fister
WV2172/2025
Watercolour and coloured pencils on Steinbach paper.
"Whenever it's early twilight
I watch 'til a star breaks through
Funny, it's not a star I see
It's always you....."
ALWAYS YOU - Puma Blue, 2025;
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Paul McCartney/Wings Songs Illustrated
VENUS AND MARS
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You Gave Me The Answer
Music & lyrics by Paul McCartney/Wings
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You Gave Me The Answer
To Love Eternally.
I Love You And - You,
You Seem To Like Me.
Wherever We Wander
The Local Folk Agree,
I Love You And - You,
You Seem To Like Me.
Heading Back To Old Familiar Places,
Places Where The Cobwebs Blow Away
I Can Forget The Airs And Graces
Terpsichory . . . . . . .
You'll Never Be Crowned By
The Aristocracy,
To Their Delight, You'd Merely Invite
Them In For A Cup Of Tea . . . . And
I Love You And - You
You Seem To Like
You Seem To Like
You Seem To Like me
www.foundmyself.com/Walter%20Vermeulen/art/you-gave-me-th...
WV2192/2025
Coloured pencils & ecoline ink on Steinbach paper.
"What is this thing in life that persuades me to spend
Time away from you?
If you can answer this, you can have the moon
This is the place to be, any way you can see
There's a lovely view
Why are there always so many other things to do?
Distractions, like butterflies are buzzing 'round my head
When I'm alone, I think of you
And the life we'd lead if we could only be free
From these distractions
The postman's at the door
While the telephone rings on the kitchen wall
Pretend we're not at home and they'll disappear
I want to be with you, tell me what I can do
Nothing is too small
Away from all this jazz we could do anything at all
Distractions, like butterflies are buzzing around my head
When I'm alone, I think of you
And the things we'd do if we could only be through
With these distractions
I'll find the peaceful place
Far away from the noise of a busy day
Where we can spend our nights
Counting shooting stars
Distractions, like butterflies are buzzing around my head
When I'm alone I think of you
And the things we'd do if we could only be through
With these distractions
Like butterflies are buzzing around my head
When I'm alone, I think of you
And the life we'd lead if we could only be free
From these distractions...."
DISTRACTIONS - Paul McCartney, 1989;
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Kate Bush Songs Illustrated
THE KICK INSIDE
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The Saxophone Song
Music & lyrics by Kate Bush
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You'll find me in a Berlin bar
In a corner brooding
You know that I go very quiet
When I'm listening to you.
There's something special indeed
There's something special indeed
In all the places where I've seen you shine, boy
There's something very real in how I feel, honey
It's in me
It's in me
And you know it's for real
Tuning in on your saxophone
Dah-bah-dah-bah-doo
The candle burning over your shoulder is throwing
Shadows on your saxophone, a surly lady in tremor
The stars that climb from her bowels
Those stars make towers on vowels
You'll never see that you had all of me
You'll never see the poetry you've stirred in me
Of all the stars I've seen that shine so brightly
I've never known or felt in myself so rightly
It's in me
It's in me
And you know it's for real
Tuning in on your saxophone
Dah-bah-dah-bah-doo
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012
Dire Straits Songs Illustrated
MAKING MOVIES
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Expresso Love
Music & lyrics by Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler
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She gets the sun in the daytime
Perfume in the dusk
And she comes out in the night time
With the honeysuckle musk
Because she smells just like a rose
And she tastes just like a peach
She got me walking the wildlife goes
I'd do anything to reach her
And she was made in heaven
Heaven's in the world
Is this just expresso love
You know I'm crazy for the girl
She call me just to talk
She's my lover she's a friend of mine
She says hey mister you wanna take a walk
In the wild west end sometime
And I get trouble with my breathing
She says boys don't know anything
But I know what I want
I want everything
Well I feel so good cos I feel so good
And I feel so good cos it feels so right
I was made to go with my girl
Like a saxophone was made to go with the night
And she can raise one eyebrow
Put her hand on my hip
And I close one eye now
Sweat on her lip
And I surrender to the fever
I surrender to the will of the night
She love me so tender I got to believe her
Love ? Expresso love's alright
I don't want no sugar in it
Thank you very much
All wired up on it all fired up on it
Expresso touch
Hey maestro expresso
It's just another one just like the other one
Hey maestro expresso
Is this another one just like the other one
WV2059/2025
Coloured pencils and pastel on Steinbach paper.
"So bury me along the Big River
At the foot of the blue gray mountains
Rest my soul in those hills of snow
Until this old earth does tremble
Don't you mourn for me
When my soul is free
Don't you cry
Just bury me at the foot of the big mountains
Under a blue Montana sky..."
Inspired by "1883", an existing. TV series.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Elton John Songs Illustrated
THE ONE
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When A Woman Doesn't Want You
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1992
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She may be lost
She may be out of bounds
All her tenderness and charms could be something
A man like me has never found
But in her woman's way
She's still a little girl
The things that she wants, the things that she needs
Oh well the choice is hers
`Cause you can't take a woman
When she doesn't want you
And you can't be a man
If you're blind to reason
Man might be strong
But true love is stronger
You gotta play it straight
When a woman doesn't want you
Her voice invites
Her eyes say more than words
But her needs and complications
Can tear away the memory of last night's girl
And if you're weak
Yeah we're all weak sometime
The best things can wait
The best times they come
Oh when strength is kind
And if you can't read her
Leave her alone
And if you don't know by now
She's not someone's prize
And you can't take her home
WV1787/2013
Ink on $teinbach paper.
"There is nothing I can do
Nothing I can say
You'll do what you want to
You'll go your own sweet way
You'll go your own sweet
Your own sweet way
You'll go your own sweet
Your own sweet way
Now I can talk to you serious
I can talk to you nice
But when it comes to love
You won't take good advice
It doesn't matter what I say
What I do or what I think
You can lead a horse to water
You can't make him drink..."
YOUR OWN SWEET WAY - Notting Hillbillies (Mark Knopfler lyrics), 1990.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Elton John Songs Illustrated
ICE ON FIRE
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Wrap Her Up
Music & lyrics by Elton John, George Michael & Bernie Taupin 1985
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There are ladies, illegal X's
Mona Lisa's, well connected
They may be shady, English roses
Blue blooded, turned up noses
Money talks, see what it catches
Postage paid, no strings attached
She's a honey, she's a tramp
Roaring twenties, molls and vamps
Wrap her up, I'll take her home with me
Wrap her up, she is all I need
Wrap her up, I only get one chance
Beasts and beauties, but they all can dance
Wrap her up, I'll take her home with me
Wrap her up, she is all I need
Wrap her up
Give her to me, wrap her up
Is she foreign, legs eleven
Italian girls, take me to heaven
You pretty babies, from Paris, France
Crazy horses, love to dance
WV1909/2024
"Traveling with the rodeo
It's the only life I'll ever know
I started in New Mexico
Must have been a thousand years ago
I used to be the best they say
At riding young wild horses for my pay
But now I'm much too old it seems
I only rides wild horses in his dreams
They use to tell me, ride 'em cowboy don't let 'em throw you down
You can't make no money if you hit the ground
They say, ride 'em cowboy don't let 'em throw you down
You're the toughest cowboy in town..."
RIDE 'EM COWBOY - Juice Newton, 1981.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2011
Elton John Songs Illustrated
DON'T SHOOT ME I'M ONLY THE PIANO PLAYER
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Teacher I Need You
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1972
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I was sitting in the classroom
Trying to look intelligent
In case the teacher looked at me
She was long and she was lean
She's a middle-aged dream
And that lady means the whole world to me
It's a natural achievement
Conquering my homework
With her image pounding in my brain
She's an inspiration
For my graduation
And she helps to keep the classroom sane
Oh teacher I need you like a little child
You got something in you to drive a schoolboy wild
You give me education in the lovesick blues
Help me get straight come out and say
Teacher I, teacher I, teacher I, Teacher I need you
I have to write a letter
Tell about my feelings
Just to let her know the scene
Focus my attention
On some further education
In connection with the birdies and the bees
So I'm sitting in the classroom
I'm looking like a zombie
I'm waiting for the bell to ring
I've got John Wayne stances
I've got Erroll Flynn advances
And it doesn't mean a doggone thing
WV2070/2025
Coloured pencils & ink on Steinbach paper.
"Wolf mother, where you been?
You look so worn, so thin
You're a taker, devil's maker
Let me hear you sing, hey-ya, hey-ya
Wolf father, at the door
You don't smile anymore
You're a drifter, a shapeshifter
Let me see you run, hey-ya, hey-ya
Holy light, oh, burn the night
Oh, keep the spirits strong
Watch it grow, child of woe, oh
Keep holding on
When I run through the deep dark forest long after this begun
Where the sun would set, the trees were dead and the rivers were none
And I hope for a trace to lead me back home from this place
But there was no sound, there was only me and my disgrace
Wayward winds, the voice that sings
Of a forgotten land
See it fall, child of woe, oh
Lend a mending hand..."
WOLF - Music & lyrics First Aid Kit, 2012.
WV1794
2014
B
"Before all of this ever went down
In another place, another town,
You were just a face in the crowd
Out in the street, walking around
A face in the crowd
Out of a dream, out of the sky
Into my heart, into my life
And you were just a face in the crowd
Out in the street, thinking out loud
A face in the crowd..."
("Face in the Crowd", Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers lyrics)
Ink on $teinbach paper
WV1832/2024
Reworked previous drawing of 1996 with gouache and coloured pencils.
Southeast Asia travels...
"I saw you dancing out the ocean
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of earth and water
Fire flying from your hands
In the instant that you love someone
In the second that the hammer hits
Reality runs up your spine
And the pieces finally fit
And all I ever needed was the one
Like freedom fields where wild horses run
When stars collide like you and I
No shadows block the sun
You're all I've ever needed
Baby you're the one
There are caravans we follow
Drunken nights in dark hotels
When chances breathe between the silence
Where sex and love no longer gel
For each man in his time is Cain
Until he walks along the beach
And sees his future in the water
A long lost heart within his reach...."
THE ONE - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1992.
WV786/2005
Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper
"Il est tombé du ciel
Un orage imprévu
Et un voyage
Jusqu'alors inconnu
M'a rendue belle
Tous les jours de la s'maine
Car je suis celle
Qui le fait vaciller
Celle qui chancelle
Sur ses nuits ondulées
Il est tombé du ciel
Quand j'avais envie d'rien
Qu'j'aimais mme plus
Le tango argentin
Ni les chansons
Qui m'flanquaient des frissons
Car je suis celle
Qui le fait vaciller
Celle qui chancelle
Sur ses nuits ondulées
Il est tombé du ciel
Près du coeur de la cible
M'a fait laisser
Mes champs brûlés
Où je chantais
D'insensés mélopées...."
IL EST TOMBE DU CIEL - Arno, 2002.
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Elton John Songs Illustrated
ICE ON FIRE
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Cry To Heaven
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1985
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I found a black beret on the street today
It was lying in the gutter all torn
There's a white flag flying on a tall building
But the kids just watch the storm
Their dirty faces pressed on the windows
Shattered glass before their eyes
There's a mad dog barking in a burned out subway
Where the sniper sleeps at night
No birthday songs to sing again
Just bricks and stones to give them
Wrap them up in your father's flags
And let them cry to heaven
There are many graves by a cold lake
As the beds were when your babies are born
And your rag doll sits with a permanent grin
But the kids just watch the storm
I saw a black cat tease a white mouse
Until he killed it with his claws
Seems a lot of countries do the same thing
Before they go to war
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
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Slow Rivers
Music & lyrics by Elton John/Cliff Richard & Bernie Taupin 1986
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The weather man he looks confused
Shakes his fist at the sky like you used to do
But you don't remember things like that do you
The balance was uneven but I'm breaking through
Slow rivers run cold
Shallow waters never sank so low
I thought I'd drown and you'd never know
You're a slow river and you run so cold
The winter here don't believe in God
The bitter wind just bites through me like a wild dog
I still see your eyes tonight like headlights through the fog
But one foot in your door oh that's all I ever got
Chances are you'll reappear
Swim my way in a flood of tears
No place to hide your conscience so
You're a sinking ship with no place to go
Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013
Elton John Songs Illustrated
TOO LOW FOR ZERO
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One More Arrow
Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1983
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He said I want to grow up
And look like Robert Mitchum
And I hope that when I'm gone
There'll be some say that I miss him
He must have been romantic
He must have sensed adventure
And I feel the steel of his strong will
In the frame around his picture
And he's one more arrow flying through the air
One more arrow landing in a shady spot somewhere
Where the days and nights blend into one
And he can always feel the sun
Through the soft brown earth that holds him
Forever always young
He could have been a boxer
But the fight game seemed so dirty
We argued once he knocked me down
And he cried when he thought he'd hurt me
Strictly from the old school
He was quiet about his pain
And if one in ten could be that brave
I would never hate again
One more arrow
One more arrow
One more arrow
Forever always young